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“So that was Kinraddie... the Scots countryside itself, fathered between a kailyard and a bonny briar bush in the lee of a house with green shutters.”

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“So of the Flanders Moss. It, too, in mist seems to roll on for miles; its heathy surface turns to long waves that paly against the foot of the low range of hills, and beat upon Craigforth as if it were an island in the sea. Through wreathes of steam, the sullen Forth winds in and out between the peat hags, and when a slant of wind leaves it clear for an instant it looks mysterious and dark, as might a stream of quicksilver running down from a mine. When a fish leaps, the sound re-echoes like a bell, as it falls back into the water, and rings spread out till they are lost beneath the banks.”

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“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.”

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Book:Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
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“For Scotland is made out of cities and the country and the sea, which means It's so much more, as an imagined space, a geography of the mind, Than its centres of population. Demographics are never enough And the way in which this might best be imagined starts In the work of Hugh MacDiarmid. And the poets and artists Who followed from that. Not as disciples. As students. As witnesses As thinking men and women, who understand the depths, complexities Subtleties and strengths and the cosmic clock, All the resources there, and all the risks required. from 'Scotland's Voices”

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Book:Landmarks: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland
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“Yes, I go along with the idea of a Scottish Spring. It was genuinely a time of beginnings, a time of openings, and I always felt that those who left Scotland then - eg. Kenneth White, Douglas Dunn - were too impatient and should have stayed. New international configurations - Sottish-American, Scottish-Russian, Scottish-Brazilian - appeared. New genres like concrete poetry and sound-poetry challenged a fair amount of opposition. I remember Hugh MacDiarmid growling in 1970 "I'd hate an Ian Finlay poem on my gravetstone." Publishers like Wild Hawthorn, Migrant, Eugen Gomringer, Hansjörg Mayer, encouraged Scotland to see the world and the world to see Scotland.”

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Book:Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000
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“In their fragmentary and miscellaneous way, the Hawthornden manuscripts provide information about the re-shaping of a British Marian myth after 1603, a complex process that involved re-negotiating older national narratives and that drew together the factious material written in the 1580s with more sombre recollections fit for the commemoration of a national figure. In a narrower sense, Fowler's papers offer material evidence of the nature and extent of circulation of Marian 'literary curiousities' among the London Jacobean elites in the first decade of Stuart rule; the loosely defined circles within which this material can be detected include people from different backgrounds, nationalities and social extractions, as a testament to the permeability of both Marian material and early seventeenth-century literary networks. By the end of the first decade of James's English reign, when much of Fowler's material was arguably collected, Mary's problematic memory had been finally tamed and the Queen of Scots had become a figure of misfortune rather than dissent.”

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Book:Scottish Literary Review, Spring/Summer 2025
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“If someone’s been signing on for six months with still no sign of finding gainful employment, then in order to continue to receive their Unemployment Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance they should complete at least 30 hours of compulsory work a week with the idea being that not only do they benefit their own communities, but this would also assist them in developing basic employability skills”

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Book:100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
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